My three favorite bookstores Peter is inching oh-so-close to learning to read, which I figure is pretty good for 3 1/2. He knows all his let...

LIFE: Yurt yurt yurt ...So we zipped away to the Oregon Coast for a little camping getaway to decompress from all the pre-moving stress, a...

LIFE: A berry good time was had by all ...Good lord, I feel like I ate my way through Independence Day. My folks came up for a visit for a ...

LIFE: Hot hot hot Whoo-ee, it's been hot 'round these parts. Temperatures right up around 100 last few days, which is on the "o...

LIFE: 'The more thou dammest it up, the more it burns...' ...Egad, two days of not going to bed until after 1 a.m. aren't as e...

LIFE: Out into Eastern Oregon, part 2 …Continuing our travelogue of last weekend's Eastern Oregon adventures at the John Day Fossil Bed...

LIFE: Out into Eastern Oregon, part I ...Whew, 937 miles of round-trip driving later, I return! We ventured far into the dusty ragged outla...

LIFE: Rock the vote So we're having a primary election in Oregon in a few weeks, and yesterday we got the League of Women Voters of O...

LIFE: Peter is the Egg-man ...Happy Easter to all and all a good night. We missed Roseburg's big Easter Egg Hunt at the park yesterday ...

LIFE: Lost – Southern Oregon edition ...So at the newspaper we've been busy covering this story in our back yard the past day or so, ...

LIFE: The news never stops AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND -- Well, we made it and are fighting off jet lag, Peter playing in the sunshine with all ...

COMICS: Inside the 'Ultimate Avengers' DVD with writer Greg Johnson I hooked up recently with Greg Johnson, the screenwriter of t...